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Some of the fundamental images of the American gallery of national icons have received a dramatic reworking. Gone, or going fast, is the concept of the melting pot, of the U.S. as the paramount place in the world where people came to shed their past in order to forge their...
In an experiment more worthy of the Third Reich than the Pentagon, the U.S. Navy between 1943 and 1946 secretly exposed 1,700 men to mustard gas and other chemical-warfare agents to test the effectiveness of protective clothing. Years later, when some of the human guinea pigs began to...
The results are preliminary: only 30 patients took part in the experiment, which lasted a scant 10 months. All the subjects appeared healthy to begin with and had been host to the virus for less than seven years. Yet even if this vaccine never helps a single person with full...
MEDICINE An unusual experiment may lead to an AIDS vaccine 44
The hike to the waterfall is part of a trip that began by rugged and fat- tired mountain bicycle in a forest of tiny trees and giant plants at 11,300 ft. on the very rim of the Amazon basin and will continue by white-water raft, motorized canoe and...